Posts for 'Serials' Category

The story begins with an attractive young woman moving into a mottled and murky Los Angeles apartment building, where all her neighbors are either beautiful or look like gnomes.  A viewer doesn't have wait long before "Circle of Eight," a Web-series from Paramount Digital Entertainment, fills up fast with supernatural events and dead bodies. "Circle" debuted Tuesday on MySpace.

Remember the glory days of online video, when amateur-made fare, such as the "Lonelygirl15" series, were the rage? Consider that Web video's silent era. It's all about professionally created content now.  YouTube is out trying to sign licensing deals for long-form movies and TV shows. Hulu offers the full-length TV shows from backers NBC Universal and News Corp., as well as other top studios and networks.

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On Sunday, one of TV’s best shows is back for a fourth season. Dexter, starring Emmy-nominated Michael C.

Hall (who should have won this year), is by far the best drama involving murder or policemen on television. Forget CSI, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, Law and Order etc.

No show compares to Dexter in each and every aspect that makes a show worth watching and successful.

Some may say that last season didn’t live up to the almost impossible standards set by the first two seasons, but that’s like saying a team who wins the Stanley Cup for the third year in a row didn’t play as well as they had in the previous two years.

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SAB TV, which recently launched its new brand campaign Asli Maza SAB ke Saath, has had a phenomenal growth in the last one year. Repositioned as a family comedy channel a year ago, the channel has zoomed past rivals such as STAR One, Sahara One and 9X.

Says Anooj Kapoor, Business Head, SAB, “A year ago, we had a GRP of 27, which has now risen to 65 while STAR One has dropped from 80 to 40, Sahara One’s GRPs have reduced from 75 to 35 and 9X has all but folded up.”

It was Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chasmah that changed the fortunes of the channel. The sitcom, based on the columns of celebrated writer Taarak Mehta, was a hit with the viewers and in Gujarat gets a rating of 10 according to Kapoor. The show opened with a rating of 1 plus, which is significant for a channel that hitherto hadn’t registered any show on the charts.

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The new TV series has provisionally been called Flesh. The project is still in its early days, and Marx's production company, Franz Marx Films, is not releasing any details. But Die Burger heard from insiders that filming of the pilot episode of Flesh recently finished and that TV stations were now being approached. As soon as a green light was obtained, the filming of the rest of the series could begin. Psychological thriller

When news about the new series was leaked, there were rumours that it would be a "gay series". In reality, it is more of a psychological thriller. However, some of the actors will be playing gay characters, such as Storm and Gert van Schalkwyk, better known as the pilot Jacques in the soapie Egoli.

The series is set in Cape Town, and starts with the naked body of a young man being thrown out of a car late at night at the foot of the Jan van Riebeeck statue. More bodies of young men are found, and detective Penelope de Vos (Surtie-Richards) realises she's dealing with a serial killer who targets gay men.

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Move over saas-bahus and reality shows as history is set to repeat itself with serials on the lives of historical figures making a comeback on the small screen.

Historical serials first shot to fame with shows like 'Bharat Ek Khoj' and ' Chanakya'. The former was shot by National-award winning director Shyam Benegal and was widely appreciated for.

Its representation of the book written by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and included a starcast of stalwarts like Roshan Seth and Naseeruddin Shah.

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UTTOXETER-born film director Shane Meadows is set for a small screen debut as his most popular film is to be given a sequel for a Channel 4 drama series.

The critically-acclaimed filmmaker’s 2006 hit This is England is to be developed in to a four-part drama as a direct result of the channel’s new direction after it announced it was to cease production of Big Brother next year.

The former Westlands Road resident received a BAFTA for his work on the part-autobiographical film about his life growing up in Uttoxeter.

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As an actor, I am looking forward to playing Gattu. I have been in the industry for over a decade and done many roles but Gattu is the one who got me immense popularity. It is said to be the most loved character on TV.

As a creative director of the show, the excitement doubles. It’s a great feeling that people are waiting for the show’s comeback. However, with excitement comes reponsibility.

As the expectations will be high this time round. We have to maintain the essence, the speciality of the show and at the same time bring an element of freshness to it.

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The great divide between Lalee and chhote Thakur due to difference of caste will completely wipe off in the coming episodes of ‘Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo.’ This transformation has happened gradually in the serial. First she entered the Haveli when Thakurain had called Lalee to meet her. Recently she entered Chhote Thakkur’s room and finally she will be honoured to be a part of kitchen chorus.

She belongs to a lower caste underprivileged family and was bought by the Thakkur’s to give birth to a male child. Inch by inch she is getting closer to the family and it will not come as a surprise to us if she takes over as Chhoti Thakurain.

This series of Spooks will stick with the same plot line through all 10 episodes for the first time. Whether they will be able to maintain the pace of this season opener, however, remains to be seen.  The complex plot, which verges on farcical at times, centres around British-Iranian relations and attempts by some antisocial types to set a biological weapon loose in Britain.

It then settles into the well-trodden path of a we-must-find-him-before-he-infects-the-rest-of-the-population race against time. There's no shortage of other cliches on offer either, with plenty of grim-faced men and women in darkened rooms making agonised life-and-death decisions about their operatives. Pure, high-quality hokum.

Living On The Coast- TVS, 7.30pm As host Julia Achilleos announces at the beginning of the show, this is a program about "people, places and their passions". And that is exactly what you get. It is obviously made on a shoestring and lacks the slickness of shows such as Sydney Weekender but more than makes up for that with its straightforward, innocent charm.

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The world's longest-running TV soap opera, "Guiding Light," will broadcast its final episode on CBS in September due to slumping ratings, ending a 72-year run that began on radio, the network said on Wednesday.

The daytime show transferred from NBC radio to CBS television in 1952. It has won 69 Daytime Emmy Awards throughout its history. Guinness World Records has dubbed it the world's longest-running TV drama. More than 15,700 episodes will have been broadcast by the time its final episode airs on September 18.

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